Skype For Business will merge with Teams

Microsoft recently
announced that the Office 365 application Teams is going to take over Skype for
Business.

What's going to happen to Skype for Business?

Skype for Business
will still exist for a little while. However, Microsoft is urging users to
embrace Teams. Yes, there will be a new Skype for Business for those unwilling
to move in with Team.

How will Teams be different than what it already is?

There will
reportedly be more calling features to the new Teams. This means you'll be able
to hold calls, transfer calls, and leave calls to voicemail. Guests from
outside of your company will also be able to join Teams. So you can pretty much
do everything you could do on Skype for Business as you can on Teams.

Slack vs. the new Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a
major competitor to Slack. Slack has 5 million users, whereas Office 365 has
over 100 million subscribers. Both Team
and Slack offers very similar functions such as direct messages, channels that
are used for different projects, file sharing, notifications, and more.

How will this help you do business?

Microsoft is
combining Skype and Teams to make it the one stop shop for team to collaborate.
Adding more comprehensive chat features to Teams makes communicating with
colleagues that much easier.

We will be releasing
more training tutorials on this soon.
Please stay tuned.